Buoy



O. ,T. MELVIN.

BUOY- APPLICAT ON FILED JUNET. 1920.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

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UNITED STATES ODUM T. MELVIN, OF ST. ANDREWS, FLORIDA..

BUOY.

Application filed June 7, 1920.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ODUM THoMAs MEL- a citizen of the United States, residing .ndrews, in the county of Bay, and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buoys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buoys and has for an object to provide a buoy, of new and improved design embodying new and im proved features of economy, reliability and e ciency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a buoy having new and improved means for supporting a fiag'stafi', designed especially for use in marking fishing areas, although it is to be understood that the use of the buoy is in no way limited to such or allied pursuits.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel features, proportions and arrangement, of parts will be hereinafter more fully describedand claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which is made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure l is a view of the improved buoy in side elevation and in operative position, and

Fig. 2 a vertical, d1ametr1cal, sect1onal view of the improved buoy.

The buoyancy of the buoy, which forms the subject matter of. this application, is obtained by a shell having an acutely tapered lower section 10 and an obliquely tapered upper section as 11, both conical or conoidal, joined at their bases by the seam 12.

Axially, through the two cones, a tube or pipe 13 is inserted stopping short of the apex of the lower cone, as indicated at 14;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

Serial No. 387,136.

and with an staff 15. At the lower end of the cone 10 a loop is secured with a swivel eye 17 carried thereby, adapted to receive a line 18 from an anchor 19.

The double cone body sealed, the tube 13 and open at the top,

open upper end to receive a flag is hermetically being inserted therein a flag staff will be p and the buoy together with its anchor cast overboard. A handle 20 is secured to the section 11 for convenience of handling the buoy. The shape of the body and the action of the anchor thereon will hold the flag stafi in an upright position whereby the flag will be visible to mark, for any purpose desired, as for instance a particular fishing area.

aving thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

uoy comprising, a body composed of cones of different taper having their bases secured together producing a single inner chamber, cylindrical socket closed at one end inserted through the axis of one cone and extending along the aXis of the other cone and having its closed end resting the inner wall of the other cone, the end of the socket extending above the apeX of the upper cone for receiving a flag staff, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at \Vashington, District of Columbia this twenty-eighth day of May, A. D, nineteen hundred and twenty.

ODUM T. MELVIN. [Ls] Witness E. W, BRA FO D, 

